Clinical Trial Aims to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Through Medication
A clinical trial at the University of Chicago Medicine aims to find new ways of preventing type 2 diabetes or slow its progression by treating participants with medications normally used for people who have had full-blown diabetes for at least one year. The trial will enroll individuals who are prediabetic or have been recently diagnosed with diabetes but are not taking drugs to treat the …
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War medicine helping Boston bomb victims
The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs after Monday's attack
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War medicine used for injured bombing victims
The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs.
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Dr. Carlos Guerra, Infectious Disease Specialist, breaks the barriers to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention
NEW YORK, NY — Most doctors simply treat the symptoms of disease, but Dr. Carlos Guerra, goes one step further! As an Infectious Disease Specialist at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Dr
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Mental health news : Ore. lawmakers make children’s funding push; Conn. panel makes recommendations
Lawmakers and officials from Oregon, Connecticut and around the nation deal with treating and paying for how they treat the mentally ill.
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F.D.A. Approves New Tuberculosis Drug
The drug, to be called Sirturo, was discovered by scientists at Janssen, the pharmaceuticals unit of Johnson & Johnson, and is the first in a new class of drugs that aims to treat the drug-resistant strain of the disease.
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F.D.A. Approves Sirturo, a New Tuberculosis Drug
The drug, to be called Sirturo, was discovered by scientists at Janssen, the pharmaceuticals unit of Johnson & Johnson, and is the first in a new class of drugs that aims to treat the drug-resistant strain of the disease.
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J&J Sirturo Wins FDA Approval to Treat Drug-Resistant TB
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) won U.S.
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NHS in England Funds KALYDECO™ (ivacaftor), the First Medicine to Treat the Underlying Cause of Cystic Fibrosis, for …
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated announced today that a decision has been made by the National Health Service in England to fund KALYDECO™ , the first medicine to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis , for people ages 6 and older who have at least one copy of the G551D mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene.
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Potential new drug therapy for Crohn's disease
Ustekinumab, an antibody proven to treat the skin condition psoriasis, has now shown positive results in decreasing the debilitating effects of Crohn’s Disease, according to new research.
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